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Volcano Types

Shield

Tectonic Setting

Subduction zoneContinental crust (> 25 km)

Rock Types

Major
Basalt / Picro-Basalt
Andesite / Basaltic Andesite

Population

Within 5 kmWithin 10 kmWithin 30 kmWithin 100 km

0
0
17
10,804

Geological Summary

Verkhovoy, a small late-Quaternary Icelandic-type basaltic to basaltic-andesite shield volcano in the central Sredinny Range, is dwarfed by its massive neighbor to the NNE, Alney-Chashakondzha volcano. Early geologic studies in the Sredinny Range (Ogorodov et al., 1972) identified numerous Holocene eruptive centers based primarily on morphological criteria. However, later work has suggested that Sredinny Range volcanoes are less mantled by Holocene tephras than eastern Kamchatka volcanoes and therefore appear more youthful, so that Holocene eruptions are uncertain for many of these Sredinny Range eruptive vents.

The Global Volcanism Program has no synonyms or subfeatures listed for Verkhovoy.

Photo Gallery

The sparsely vegetated area at the center of this NASA Landsat image (with north to the top) is Verkhovoy volcano. This small late-Quaternary Icelandic-type shield volcano lies in the central Sredinny Range, between the Tigil (left-center) and Polovinnaya (right-center) Rivers. Verkhovoy is dwarfed by its massive neighbor to the NNE, Alney-Chashakondzha (whose flanks form the snow-covered area at the upper right. The Khrebet Kruky ridge is at the lower right.

NASA Landsat7 image (worldwind.arc.nasa.gov)

References

The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title.

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